Bert Monroy: Dreamscapes - The Maze

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3/26/2015

This installment of Bert Monroy's Dreamscapes features an intricate, labyrinth-like maze. But the scene isn't painted from scratch. Instead, Bert shows how to reuse what you have on hand: in this case, a maze scanned from a puzzle book, some old vacation photos, and a few snapshots posed with family friends. Follow along as he uses Photoshop to transform these ordinary assets into this extraordinary work of art.

Skill Level Intermediate

55m 51s

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- [Voiceover] In this Dreamscapewe're going to create this strange world wherethese two young girls are trying to escapetheir imprisonment, going through this mazeand trying to scale the wall to see what's there.Now, what made this all up? Very simple.The maze was a simple puzzle taken right from a bookthat was extruded using the 3D functions of Photoshop.The structures was two of those throw-away shotsfrom vacations. Perfect, structure, great cons,a little manipulation, using again the features of Photoshopgave us exactly what we needed.

The girls, well that's the only thing thatwas actually posed. I just set them up,my neighbor's daughters, and set them up in a waythat I envisioned. I took the shot,and then I had to manipulate themto get dots out of the pants, change the colorand so on, and pull them out from their backgroundin order to have them fulfill the overall scene,there they are, trying to get away from this weird world.Let's sit back and look at this seriesand see how this entire image was created.It's really simple once you understandwhat Photoshop can do.